Does listening to the tapes of the people of innovation or reading their books fall under sitting with the innovators?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Does listening to the tapes of the people of innovation, or reading their books for the purpose of knowing what they are upon, fall under sitting with the innovators?
Answer:
It is like sitting with them, or worse than sitting with them. But if he is a scholar, if he is a scholar armed with knowledge and listens to them or looks into them in order to refute them and warn against them, then there is no harm in that. However, if he has no knowledge and no insight, and he wants to read them or listen to them, this is not permissible, because they enter his mind and he has no counter to them. He has no counter to them, so it is not permissible for him to listen to them when he has no counter to the poisons and the evils contained in them. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: Does listening to the tapes of the people of innovation, or reading their books for the purpose of knowing what they are upon, fall under sitting with the innovators?
Answer:
It is like sitting with them, or worse than sitting with them. But if he is a scholar, if he is a scholar armed with knowledge and listens to them or looks into them in order to refute them and warn against them, then there is no harm in that. However, if he has no knowledge and no insight, and he wants to read them or listen to them, this is not permissible, because they enter his mind and he has no counter to them. He has no counter to them, so it is not permissible for him to listen to them when he has no counter to the poisons and the evils contained in them. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [468 -560] من يستمع إلى أشرطة أهل البدع أو يقرأ كتبهم، هل يدخل هذا في الجلوس مع المبتدعة؟ — youtube.com
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